Knights Reborn

First off. I owe every single member of this community an apology for my exploits from 2011-2016. I never was really a threat but I'm well aware that I became an nuisance beyond what I was worth and caused the admins of KR (and a few other servers, I've got a lot of patch work to do with my relationship with this community.) an increased workload and decreased the amount of fun everyone could have in general. For this you have my apologies, whatever that may be worth.

Now with that having been said:

Who banned me: I don't know. I've been on your ban list for like the last 2 years. I think the original order came down from a council member of the old days.
What was I banned for: Being an ass. I'm sure I did something stupid and swore out an admin or something equally stupid and didn't realize when to quit. Most recently I violated my ban (as a show of good faith I will detail the method by which I did this later in the post so perhaps Jawfin can patch it if he feels prudent to do so)

I don't really have a single reason I think you should unban me, but I do have this freeform rambling that will probably end up being nothing like what I had originally intended. Quite simply put I started playing this game when I was 11, now I'm 19. Obviously I've changed quite a bit during that time. Recently I've experience the oh so enjoyable experience of having a job where I worked my ass off, was underpaid, under appreciated, and ultimately fired while a less expensive (and less qualified) employee was kept, in the last 2 years I've nearly died twice (yeah, I know a lot of you probably wish I had. I deserve it), watched both of the grandparents who raised me die, graduated from high school, learned about 100 life lessons to numerous to list, and generally gained a more enlightened view of the world. All these things make you realize the simple fact that things you knew wont always be there and you don't really realize until there gone and that life isn't something you should just waste away. You only really have so much time and in this time you can either make the most of it or you can make the least of it. Up until a year or so ago I spent most of my time making the least of it. Now I'm trying to make the most of it.

Most of my old JKA crew is gone. Binny is in the ground, my former clanmates have long moved on (be it getting full time jobs, becoming parents, etc whatever the case they no longer play and most of them I've lost touch with entirely), and the games population is ever dwindling. This game represents (sadly) a large part of my growing up experience as it's something that like a hobby has always been there in the background. Something I never really thought about up until recently. This isn't the days of JP, EK, and EJO being constantly at or near full capacity. KR and JAWA are the only two civilized servers left with sane and competent admins and an active player base. I'm banned from both and my relationship with the JAWA clan is completely beyond help and I would like to still have somewhere to play. The way I see it this game probably has a few years of life left in it at most. It can be hard to get running on modern systems and I wouldn't be surprised if eventually it stops being sold all together.

I don't really play that much anymore but when I do I have no desire to spend it either skulking about under a fake name hoping none of the admins figure out who I am or raising chaos putting myself right back into the situation I'm in now. I just want to play the game, chat with the people I've been interacting with for over half a decade now (ironically I'm not universally hated, I'm just banned from everywhere at the top level and lower rank admins have to enforce it. Can't hate someone for doing there job), listen to rock N roll music way too loud, and maybe duel someone once in a while. Basically my trouble making days are long behind me.

I will say for the sake of full disclosure I did bypass my ban using the 4G hotspot of my mobile phone. Everytime I reset the hotspot it leases a new IP with a completely different range thus forth Jawfins advanced (and very effective I might add) firewall does not realize its me provided that I re-install my game, change my computers name, and flush my DNS configuration with a ipconfig -flush command. You could most likely block these by banning IPs leased from major cellular carriers using either a script that checks against them or a block list. At least that's what I would do if I was the KR IT guy. At any rate while I was on Uscari convinced me that filing an unban request was probably the right way to go considering everything I've just said instead of trying to run the blockade. Well he was right, and here I am now completely at your mercy since I've given up my secrets.

Most KR members would tell you I haven't been a problem in recent years and as proven by the fact I'm still on your forums I've obviously been conducting myself acceptably here for the past several years.

Hey KK.

Hate to break it to you bud but I always know when you are on...! There are warning firewall rules which don't actually fire a ban. The thing is, we ban the behaviour, not the person, if that makes sense. So while you think you are skulking around and are behaving (except that stint on 18th of June 2017 when you were playing as [Wovian]LordSarada, but I let that slide on the day [oh and 3rd of April when you put on Falcon's name & tag, but besides that]) then technically the attitude is still banned as you don't want to draw attention to yourself. (Other KR leaders can attest the client access to the firewall goes red but doesn't act when suspect people are on!)

Of course, we want you to be as honest as you can obviously, so ban lifted.

Now it's possible there are some lingering rules in the firewall as it's self learning. I'll remove them if they fire, so if you connect and get banned that IP should be lifted soon enough - so sorry if that happens. Just gimme a few to pull down now the curtains and you're back on

Out of respect I did read all of your post. I hope you get a good job that reflects your intelligence and work ethic, oh and pays well

I just want to say that I'm happy to see this post. It shows a lot of character for you to open up with us on this level, telling us stuff many would feel was too personal for them to disclose. You didn't have to be this honest but you chose to do so anyways, I really appreciate that.

I'm glad found a chance to reintroduce yourself to this community.

Jawfin wrote:Hey KK.

Hate to break it to you bud but I always know when you are on...! There are warning firewall rules which don't actually fire a ban. The thing is, we ban the behaviour, not the person, if that makes sense. So while you think you are skulking around and are behaving (except that stint on 18th of June 2017 when you were playing as [Wovian]LordSarada, but I let that slide on the day [oh and 3rd of April when you put on Falcon's name & tag, but besides that]) then technically the attitude is still banned as you don't want to draw attention to yourself. (Other KR leaders can attest the client access to the firewall goes red but doesn't act when suspect people are on!)

Of course, we want you to be as honest as you can obviously, so ban lifted.

Now it's possible there are some lingering rules in the firewall as it's self learning. I'll remove them if they fire, so if you connect and get banned that IP should be lifted soon enough - so sorry if that happens. Just gimme a few to pull down now the curtains and you're back on

Out of respect I did read all of your post. I hope you get a good job that reflects your intelligence and work ethic, oh and pays well

Alright. I will likely return to my usual JKA name of CaptainKirk. I also use the name Cyb3rst0rm as that's my usual online ID. Whichever I connect with I will stick too though.

I do appreciate the second chance. I will not waste it and you will not regret it.

I actually forgot I was handed the flaming carcass that was Thomas's Wovian clan when he rage quit JKA until you reminded me of it. Ha ha some things are better left to fade into history.

@Falcon I also forgot about that incident. During April of 2017 I went on a tangent and impersonated the leaders of a few different clans. I don't remember the specifics. You also have my apologies.

@Uscari thank you for asking me to post here instead of just out right banning me (which given my history you would have been well within your rights to do).